Community Board 3's land use committee will meet tonight for the latest battle in the war over 515 East Fifth Street, one of the buildings to which developer Ben Shaoul infamously added a tumor back in 2006. Attorneys for the building's tenants have most recently argued that the Department of Buildings shouldn't have approved the tumor under zoning laws, and the Board of Standard and Appeals agreed with the tenants. But now Shaoul is appealing and asking for a variance to keep part of the addition. [EVG; previously]
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